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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 433,065, dated July 29, 1890.

Application filed March 27, 1890.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CARL BEHN and IIER- MAN T. KOERNER, of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvements on a Toy which we designate the Combined Base and Foot Ball Player, and we do hereby declare that the following description of our said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying sheets of drawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has general reference to an improved toy, which we prefer to designate the foot and base ball player, and it consists, essentially, in the novel and peculiar combination of parts and details of construction, as hereinafter first fully set forth and described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings already mentioned, which serve to illustrate our invention more fully, Figure 1 is a front elevation of our improved toy. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same when dismounted for packing and shipment. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation, Fig. 4 a side elevation, and Fig. 5 a plan, of the same.

Like parts are designated by corresponding letters of reference in all the figures.

A is the preferably rectangular base of our improved toy, it having centrally a slotted aperture 1), Fig. i, for the reception of the taper tenon B of the principal portion B of the figure. In this base there is also located a pivoted catch G by the pin g and eyes, as clearly shown in the drawings, though other analogous means may be employed for pivoting said catch, if desired.

The figure represents a ball-player having the leg 0, pivoted to the body 13 by a pivot F, consisting of a screw, rivet, bolt, or similar device, said bolt passing through a circular disk D, Fig. 1, upon which is wound a coilspring E, the end 6 of which is secured to the leg 0, and the opposite end to the body B, so that the said coil-spring will cause a quick oscillatory motion of the leg 0 whenever the latter is placed behind the catch G with the toe 0 bearing on said catch, and then released by pulling the string 0.

One of the arms of the figure is a perma- Serial No. 345,509. (No model.)

nent fixture of the body, but the other arm H is pivoted at the shoulder of the said figure by a pivot 71., Figs. 3 and 4, a coil-spring K and a disk similar to the disk D on the body 13 within the leg-joint being provided to give to the arm II a motion similar to that of the leg 0. This arm II has a notch h, and upon the body of the figure is pivoted a catch L, having a cord or string M, said catch being arranged to engage said notch h and to keep the same in a depressed condition, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3, until the string M is pulled, when the coil-spring K causes a quick upward movement of said arm until its motion is arrested by a stop P on the body of the figure B.

The forward part of the arm H of the figure, being the hand, is provided with a wire or similar loop I, one end of which is secured to the arm by a staple I, and by bending it at right angles, as shown at i, Fig. 5, the other end is left open at '2', so that the leg C, When released from the catch G, may pass with its toe portion 0 through this open portion '1: of the said loop.

The object of this toy is to project a preferably rubber ball J into the air,'in imitation of base or foot ball playing, and this is accomplished by placing the leg 0 behind the catch G and the ball J into the loop I, as shown in Fig. 1. If new the string 0 is pulled to release the leg C, the action of the spring E will cause the toe of said leg to strike the ball J, in imitation of foot-ball playing, and thereby to project the said ballinto the air in a very natural and am using manner. If it is desired to imitate the pitching of the ball, as in baseball playing, the arm II is depressed. so that the catch L may engage the notch It. Now the ball J is placed into the loop I, (which may be curved, as shown at Z) in Fig. 3, if necessary,) and then the string M pulled so that the spring K may cause the arm to perform a quick upward movement, thereby giv- 5 ing sufficient impetus to said ball to fly into the air, the movement of the arm H being arrested by the stop P, already referred to.

As stated, the body of the figure is provided with the taper tenon B, fitting the aperture loo 1) in said base, (a snug fit.) By this construction of the toy we are enabled to dismount the same, as shown in Fig. 2, and pack it into a suitable box, so that the whole will occupy but a small space, which in shipping is quite an advantage.

It will readily be observed that the figure may be used either as a foot-ball player or as a base-ball pitcher, or as a combined foot and base ball player, and we desire it, therefore, understood that either the arm H or the foot 0 may be made a permanent fixture of the body, and but one of the limbs made movable, as described, without changing the nature of our invention.

The body, as Well as the limbs of the figure, are made of .flat pieces of wood, (though other forms of construction may be adopted, if desired,) and the characteristic portions of the design of the figure either painted or printed thereon or produced on paper, which may afterward be pasted upon the fiat sides of these portions, thereby enabling us to produce the entire toy in a neat and attractive manner at r a small cost.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. An improved toy, being a combined foot and base ball player, consisting of a suitable base having a catch, a body having a pivoted leg adapted to engage said catch and provided With a spring engaging said leg and the body, and a pivoted arm having a spring and catch, and an open loop on its forward end to receive the ball, the whole being constructed and combined in the manner as and for the object set forth.

2. In a toy ball-pitcher, the combination, with the base having the pivoted catch, of

the body having the pivoted leg adapted to engage said catch, the coil-spring having its ends secured to said body and leg, respect ively, the arm, and the loop on said arm adapted to receive the ball, as set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we have hereto set our hands in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CARL BEHN. H. T. KOERNER.

Attest:

MICHAEL J. STARK, R. H. HEUSSLER. 

